[CentOS] New lists

[John Summerfield]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>>>>> I'm speaking from my own perspective, but I'm sure others have  
>>>>> similar stories. How many users use all CentOS releases?
>>>> I totally agree John - as CentOS gets more popular i too have found
>>>> myself using 'Mark folder as Read' too often.
>>>
>>> This is a good thing. I've just left the Fedora Core mailing lists 
>>> (users & devel) and the traffic didn't bother me at all. It's a great 
>>
>> Not everyone can have such a fine Internet connexion.
> 
> There's always gmail if you'd rather have a web interface and not worry 
> about the bulk of messages you skip.

I can't read offline.


> 
>>> Splitting by version is usually a bad idea. It causes things to 
>>> split, people post the wrong version information to the wrong lists 
>>> and it becomes a PITA. Hell, I've noticed enough people whinge and 
>>> moan about top posting... Imagine that on someone posting a v5 
>>> question to a v4 list!
>>
>> I thought it worked very well indeed with Red Hat Linux. I note that 
>> Red Hat continues with that plan with RHEL.
> 
> What happens if the person who knows the answer to a version 3 question 
> has moved on to version 4?  Or questions about the 90+% of things that 
> are identical across all unix-like systems?
> 

Nothing's perfect. Why not everyone join the Fedora list? Just about 
everything that's in CentOS has been in Fedora too.

As I said, it seems to work in other places.


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John

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